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...since John Kennedy posed boldly in a two-button coat, defying decades of three-button tradition, has a suit of clothes gained such worldwide attention as the blue-and-gray glen plaid outfit that Ronald Reagan wore to Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: Live Men Do Wear Plaid | 6/28/1982 | See Source »

...dress up as a bag lady and even teach to speak. E.T. is remarkably adaptable and wonderfully funny in his adventure on earth. Left alone in the house, he toddles around like a middle-aged ironworker on a weekend without the wife, his potbelly peeking out of a plaid bathrobe as he watches TV and gets drunk on Coors beer. Later still, he is a holy sage, a whiz-kid Yoda, constructing a transmitter out of spare parts to signal his spaceship. And he has an extra gift for children. If the moment is propitious, and they truly believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Steve's Summer Magic | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

DEAD MEN DON'T WEAR PLAID...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: White Meat | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

...their sun-paled plaid maternity bathing suits, the pregnant young women . . . Coming along the water's edge, heads higher than the line of the sea . . . bellies swollen stately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Baby Bloom | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

...such an event, but it's a bit of a strain to imagine her bringing along her demind-boyfriend to be skewered by Norman's verbal parries. The dentist (Debney Coleman), incidentally, is the real McCoy; he wears a light blue cotton Suit, a white and blue plaid short and a dark solid tie. Now that is a dentist. What requires a great leap of faith is understanding why Chelsea wants to unload the dentist's 13-year-old son on Ethel and the old bastard for a month while she and the dentist traipse around Europe. But skepticism never...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: On Golden Caramel | 2/4/1982 | See Source »

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